Portfolio Companies

StartX has accelerated the development of some of Stanford's best entrepreneurs, in fields from clean tech and bio tech to consumer internet and enterprise software.

Our founders range from undergrads and masters students to post docs, professors, and Stanford alumni. We are proud to be building a community of all the top founders from Stanford.

Our founders have released products, become profitable, raised funding, been acquired, and been covered extensively in the press, including TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, Inc Magazine, Forbes, and many more.

• "StartX has been instrumental in helping us develop as entrepreneurs. The community is very supportive and has pushed us to never give up. Our mentors routinely go beyond our expectations to advise us and connect us to their personal networks so we can reach our goals. I would strongly advise any entrepreneur serious about starting a company to apply to StartX."

  - Andrew Lee
  Stem Cell Theranostics, StartX Fall 2011

• "StartX provides a network of mentors that is truly world class. The cumulative breadth of knowledge of the mentors, coupled with their willingness to work closely with StartX entrepreneurs has accelerated our business tremendously, and our team is confident that we would not be where we are today without the support and counsel of our mentors."

  - Keaton Swett
  Mindsumo, StartX Winter 2011

• "StartX mentors are accomplished entrepreneurs who guide you in building your vision into reality, without pushing their own vision on to you. The tools, insights, success and failures they shared, inspired us and helped us learn to purposefully make effective decisions that soon turned out to be of great strategic importance for the success of our business."

  - Pratik Verma
  AgeTak Inc., StartX Spring 2011

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  Stem Cell Theranostics

  Drug screening using human cardiomyocytes derived from patients to accelerate the drug development process. Recently received a $20M grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine

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  MindSumo

  MindSumo provides organizations a platform to post real-world challenges for college students to solve. Raised $1M.

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  AgeTak Inc

  AgeTak builds solutions for healthcare and financial markets that simplify: combining enterprise data assets, maintaining identifiable-information privacy, and creating legal proof-of-compliance.

Alumni Companies

	GameClosure Multiplatform. Multiplayer. HTML5. Raised $12 million series A. Investors include Greylock, Benchmark, General Catalyst, CRV, SV Angel
	analyticsMD Empowering hospital staff with data to reduce patient wait times and improve quality. analyticsMD provides intelligent analytics to front-line hospital managers and staff to pinpoint operational problems and forecast demand in hospitals.
	Veebot Veebot's technology, called automated venipuncture solutions, takes the guess work out of placing intravenous catheters, creating huge potential for savings in costs related to medical complications and patient pain.
	BioTx This team of electrical engineers has developed wireless devices capable of moving through fluid -- in particular, a living bloodstream -- to position drugs or surgical tools precisely where they may be needed in the body. The company initially is developing precision-guided catheters for treating cardiac arrhythmia.
	Cytobank Cytobank provides cloud-computing software appliations tailored for bioscience researchers, collaborators, and core labs using flow cytometry. Customers include 6 out of the 10 largest biotech companies.
	DermLink DermLink.md is developing telemedicine technology to let dermatologists do remote diagnoses of skin conditions. Patients who now wait more than a month for an initial visit coule be diagnosed and receive a treatment plan and any necessary prescriptions within a day or two.
	SoniTrack Systems SoniTrack Systems is a medical device company that integrates robotics and ultrasound imaging to enable non-invasive radiation treatments for cancer that continuously adapt to anatomy motion. This advancement has significant potential to increase local tumor control rates, reduce healthy tissue toxicity, and reduce overall treatment cost for hospitals.
	QBotix Making solar energy cheaper than coal through novel solar tracking.
	Stem Cell Theranostics The first company to offer drugscreening services using human cardiomyocytes (heart cells) derived from patients to accelerate the drug development process. We provide a faster, less expensive, and more efficient platform of predicting drug efficacy and toxicity at pre-clinical stages of drug development than currently available options. Their technology was and is being developed through a $20M California Institute of Regenerative Medicine grant
	diffbot Applies computer vision techniques to extract useful metadata from web documents. Recently secured $2 million from Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems; Joi Ito, Director of the MIT MediaLab; Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of YouSendIt, and other top executives and founders from Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo, with participation from Matrix Partners.
	Carbon Lighthouse Launched based on our belief that if carbon footprint elimination were profitable, organizations across the world would race to become carbon-free. We combine existing engineering, finance, and policy tools into one innovative product, making it profitable for institutions large and small to become completely carbon neutral. Visit www.CarbonLighthouse.com.
	Lark LARK enables the mobile phone to become a truly personal device that will monitor, alert, and improve your quality of sleep, work, and health.
	6dot Innovations Creating independence for the blind. Our first product is a new portable, easy-to-use braille labeling device based on unique labeling technology.
	Kitchit Bridging private chefs and event planners to create personal, in-home fine dining experiences.
	AgeTak Inc AgeTak builds solutions for healthcare and financial markets that simplify: combining enterprise data assets, maintaining identifiable-information privacy, and creating legal proof-of-compliance.
	Modewalk ModeWalk is where consumers meet with luxury designers, fall in love with products, and shop online.ModeWalk also presents luxury designers a venue to tell their stories and better forecast inventories through directly connecting with consumers
	MindSumo MindSumo provides organizations a platform to post real-world challenges for college students to solve. Raised $1M.
	Motion Math Motion Math creates fun learning games that let kids play with numbers. They turn screen time into learning time. Their math games have been downloaded over one million times.
	Juntos Finanzas Juntos Finanzas creates innovative personal finance tools that empower first-generation Latino communities.
	Kidaptive Kidaptive is dedicated to helping children learn and have fun through interactive animated stories, while empowering parents through a powerful feedback loop.
	Morpheus Morpheus has created the first and only non-invasive and accurate diagnostic tool for structural heart disease.
	ClearEar Expand patient access and improve quality of ear care for the over 350M patients in need worldwide.
	Loki Studios Loki Studios utilizes GPS-enabled mobile devices to bring context-awareness to immersive social gaming.
	Bell Biosystems Applying a revolutionary cell imaging, homing, and selective destruction technology to tools in the next generation of drug delivery.
	Predictive Edge Predictive Edge is an e-commerce pricing solution that aims to bring Amazon's dynamic pricing capabilities to any online retailer.
	WiFiSlam An enabling technology for indoor positioning that is 50 times cheaper than any existing solution.
	Jetlore Semantic social context / analytics
	CrowdJewel Produces and sells the best jewelry designs sourced from the crowd.
	Appfluence Cloud task management tools made brilliantly easy. Have over 80,000 customers.
	Maykah Turning every girl into an artist, engineer, architect and visionary through exposure to science, technology, engineering and math with toys.
	LessThan3 Virtual goods platform building social experiences around collections.
	Medigram HIPAA compliant group messaging app for doctors.
	Nutrivise An advanced nutrition system tailored to individuals needs, location and plans.
	Pixelapse Visual version control for designers
	ClassOwl ClassOwl is an online application for schools that gives every teacher and student a personalized planner filled with assignments, deadlines, and events for all of the courses you are in.
	Think Bulbs Think Bulbs is an international company that creates innovative mobile applications. We are a group of young thinkers who strive to build products that delight our customers and provide the best user experience to them.
	Accevia Accevia aims to be the ultimate financial therapist - we help our clients make sense of all of their financial options by matching them to advisors based on their specific needs.
	NuMedii NuMedii uses large amounts of molecular, clinical, and chemical data to connect drugs and diseases. The company is a translational medicine company focused on developing first in class therapeutics for unmet medical needs.

EIRs

	Airy Labs Airy Labs is creating the next generation of social learning games for kids. We build games on mobile, tablet, and in the browser, all with a core educational mission that will teach kids the skills they need to be successful in life.
	ChompOn Drop-in group buying for web and mobile.
	Crowdbooster Crowdbooster helps businesses measure and optimize social media marketing.
	Gauss Surgical Gauss Surgical is developing a mobile vision-based platform for accurate, realtime measurement of surgical blood loss.
	ShopWell ShopWell is a personalized nutrition app that recommends foods to people based on their dietary needs and helps them build healthy grocery lists.
	TixxMe TixxMe aims to enrich and augment your real world social life.
	VipeCloud Are your customers watching your videos? Discover, share, and analyze the impact of videos with VipeCloud.
	Watchup Watchup is the first iPad news watcher
	LawGives An entirely new kind of marketplace for legal services that allows everyone to find legal help they can trust.